Inspiration & Expression of a Creative Mom in Progress

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I’m a mom of 2 young daughters who’s trying to strike balance between work, life, wifedom, and motherhood. This balance thing has not been particularly easy for me – though I suspect it’s not really for anyone – and there’s a good chance “Balance” is just a myth anyway!

I ran a business full-time for about 8 years. And until the end of 2011 my husband was co-owner and working full-time with me. Yes, in the same office, all day long. During that time we weathered the economic downturn, a pregnancy, my post-partum issues, and a plethora of bad decisions. His move back to the corporate world was our first big shift as a family. But sometimes a big change like that makes a beautiful difference and opens new doors. The first of these came with a new part-time position for me with a former client, giving me more individual stability and a fresh start.

I admit that in the last few years I’ve gone through phases of being a bit of a self-help junkie. I even talked a life coach who attended one of the Facebook marketing classes I was teaching into running a work life retreat for moms. (I’d never met her before. Who does that? Apparently I do.) She did help me a lot as a coach, and it’s inspiring just following her. Even life coaches change and experience growing pains! My Kindle is chock full of self-help and spiritual inspiration titles. I’ve got Cheryl Richardson & Louise Hay books and tapes laying around the house. “Simple Abundance” too. Vision boards and vision books. Quotes and prayers. Is this familiar to anyone else out there?

The bottom-line is this: I know intellectually I, as a woman, as a mom to two daughters, as a wife, need to focus on nurturing myself a bit more. I know we all hear this all the time but I think it’s for a reason: it’s probably true. For me this means changing my business and to a certain extent my life. It means returning to one of my first loves, writing. And being okay with not quite knowing where this whole train is headed.